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Recent Examples of mined
According to consultant Thunder Said Energy, 350 million tonnes of silica was mined in 2024.
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IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Fashion designers such as John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Vivienne Westwood and Alessandro Michele have all mined the royal for inspiration.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
This surge comes after the company reported a 38% increase in bitcoins mined during August, driven by a significant boost in its operational hashrate, which reached 50 EH/s (Exahashes per second)—a critical measure of computing power on the Bitcoin network.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Even as Nintendo has endlessly mined its classic consoles for nostalgic re-releases in recent decades, the company has seemed to completely ignore the existence of the Virtual Boy—its abortive 1990s dip into the world of early virtual reality.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Land Rover invited us to drive it the way it was intended—hard, fast, and on gnarly trails where cell service is as scarce as the uranium once mined from these hills.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
Miller Moss, the backup in 2023, was still around, and Riley mined the transfer portal for other options.
—Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Ansari mined from Reeves' past comedic roles — the Bill & Ted franchise, Parenthood — when creating the otherworldly character for his own harsh lessons about life on Earth.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Rightsholders have mined public statements from AI company C-suites for clues.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
Fashion designers such as John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Vivienne Westwood and Alessandro Michele have all mined the royal for inspiration.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
This surge comes after the company reported a 38% increase in bitcoins mined during August, driven by a significant boost in its operational hashrate, which reached 50 EH/s (Exahashes per second)—a critical measure of computing power on the Bitcoin network.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Even as Nintendo has endlessly mined its classic consoles for nostalgic re-releases in recent decades, the company has seemed to completely ignore the existence of the Virtual Boy—its abortive 1990s dip into the world of early virtual reality.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Land Rover invited us to drive it the way it was intended—hard, fast, and on gnarly trails where cell service is as scarce as the uranium once mined from these hills.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
Miller Moss, the backup in 2023, was still around, and Riley mined the transfer portal for other options.
—Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Ansari mined from Reeves' past comedic roles — the Bill & Ted franchise, Parenthood — when creating the otherworldly character for his own harsh lessons about life on Earth.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Rightsholders have mined public statements from AI company C-suites for clues.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mined
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At least four people were killed and eight were injured after a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints service in Michigan on Sunday morning, police said.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy and Odesa were also attacked, President Voloydmyr Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Upon booting up the game and working through a pretty robust character creator, players arrive in Lumiose City and are immediately ambushed by a content creator/social media manager working for the corporation Quasartico, Inc.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The deadliest attack on the press recorded by the CPJ was the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines, in which 32 journalists were among those killed when a convoy was ambushed.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
20 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this month, Tunisian officials rejected the group’s claim that a drone bombed one of its main vessels.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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There was a time not long ago when boats coming out of Venezuela were beloved, not bombed.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Mined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mined. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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